Automated social-presence coding was linked with learners' positions in a MOOC network
2nd International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography (ICQE 2020)
Whether categories of social presence in discussion posts are associated with learners' structural positions in a MOOC interaction network. Certain forms of social presence correlated positively with network measures, and position groups differed in the social-presence patterns they displayed. Correlations between classified language and network position do not show that strategic posting causes engagement, and both classifier error and platform participation shape the observed relations.
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